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Digital storytelling
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Digital storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their story. The media used may include the equivalent of film techniques, stills, audio only. Digital storytelling is a new term which describes the new practice of everyday people who use digital tools to tell their story. Digital stories often present in compelling and emotionally engaging formats, one can define digital storytelling as the process by which diverse peoples share their life story and creative imaginings with others. These new technologies allow individuals to share their stories over the Internet on YouTube, Vimeo, compact discs, podcasts, one can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and moving images and sound. Thanks to new media and digital technologies, individuals can approach storytelling from unique perspectives, many people use elaborate non-traditional story forms, such as non-linear and interactive narratives. Simply put, digital stories are multimedia movies that combine photographs, video, sound, music, text, Digital stories may be used as an expressive medium within the classroom to integrate subject matter with extant knowledge and skills from across the curriculum. Students can work individually or collaboratively to produce their own digital stories, once completed, these stories can easily be uploaded to the internet and can be made available to an international audience, depending on the topic and purpose of the project. Digital Storytelling has been used by Ken Burns, in the documentary The Civil War, some of the other artists who have described themselves as digital storytellers are the late Dana Atchley, his collaborator Joe Lambert, Abbe Don, Brenda Laurel, and Pedro Meyer. Typically, digital stories are produced in intensive workshops, the product is a short film that combines a narrated piece of personal writing, photographic and other still images, and a musical soundtrack. Technology enables those without a background to produce works that tell a story using moving images. Digital storytelling was integrated into public broadcasting by the BBCs Capture Wales project working with such as Breaking Barriers. The following year a project was launched by the BBC in England titled Telling Lives. Sveriges Utbildningsradio created Rum för Berättande, netherlands Educational TV Teleac/NOT created a program with young people in different parts of the country. These include websites and online videos created to promote causes, entertain, educate, the expressive capabilities of technology offers a broad base from which to integrate. It enhances the experience for both the author and audience and allows for greater interactivity, Digital storytelling combines the art of storytelling with multimedia features such as photography, text, audio, voiceover, hypertext and video. Digital tools and software make it easy and convenient to create a digital story, common software includes iMovie and Movie Maker for user-friendly options. There are other options and free applications as well

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Mockumentary
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A mockumentary or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting. While not always comedic, comedic mockumentaries are common, a dramatic mockumentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Mockumentaries are often presented as documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film footage became relatively easy to locate, a very early example was a short piece on the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest that appeared as an April fools joke on the British television program Panorama in 1957. The term mockumentary, which originated in the 1960s, was popularized in the mid-1980s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film. Mockumentaries are often partly or wholly improvised, as a style of acting helps to maintain the pretense of reality. Comedic mockumentaries rarely have laugh tracks, also to sustain the atmosphere, albert Brooks was also an early popularizer of the mockumentary style with his film Real Life,1979, a spoof of a PBS documentary. Woody Allens Take the Money and Run is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a criminal, Virgil Starkwell. Jackson Beck, who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, fictional interviews are interspliced throughout, especially those of Starkwells parents who wear Groucho Marx noses and mustaches. The style of film was widely appropriated by others and revisited by Allen himself in films such as Zelig and Sweet. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the format has enjoyed considerable attention. In 1984, Christopher Guest co-wrote and starred in the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, films such as Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, all written with costar Eugene Levy, were critical successes. Man Bites Dog is a 1992 Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary written, produced, and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, in 1995, directed by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes, Forgotten Silver claimed New Zealand director Colin McKenzie to be a pioneer in filmmaking. When the film was revealed to be a mockumentary, Jackson received criticism for tricking viewers. In 1999, Drop Dead Gorgeous by Michael Patrick Jann used the style to narrate a fictional small-town beauty pageant as a way to satirize Middle America. Dark Side of the Moon is a 2002 French mockumentary by director William Karel, the premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. FUBAR is a 2002 Canadian mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, the Confederate States of America is a 2004 mockumentary presenting an alternative history in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War

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Pseudo-documentary
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A pseudo-documentary is a film or video production that takes the form or style of a documentary film but does not portray real events. Rather, scripted and fictional elements are used to tell the story, the pseudo-documentary, unlike the related mockumentary, is not always intended as satire or humor. It may use documentary camera techniques but with fabricated sets, actors, or situations, orson Welles gained notoriety with his radio show and hoax War of the Worlds which fooled listeners into thinking the Earth was being invaded by Martians. Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum says this is Welles first pseudo-documentary, pseudo-documentary elements were subsequently used in his feature films. For instance, Welles created a pseudo-documentary newsreel which appeared within his 1941 film Citizen Kane, the film Mad Max 2 first frames the story by showing a staged documentary-style sequence of images designed to inform the viewer that what follows is the aftermath of an apocalyptic global war. The film cuts confusingly between actual footage of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and staged images of actor Gary Oldman who is playing Oswald, the modern sequences are badly lit and they are artificially made grainy and scratched-looking so that they appear to be 1963-era 16 mm film. Stone uses the format to influence the viewer by presenting the conspiracy theory in a scientific. Related to, and in opposition to pseudo-documentary, is the notion of “fake-fiction”. A fake-fiction film takes the form of a staged, fictional movie, while actually portraying real, the notion of fake-fiction was coined by Pierre Bismuth to describe his 2016 film Where Is Rocky II. Which uses documentary method to tell a real, unscripted story, the effect of this fictional aesthetic is precisely to cancel the sense of reality, making the real events appear as if they were staged or constructed. Unlike mockumentary, fake-fiction does not focus on satire, and in distinction with docufiction, another filmmaker whose work could be associated with the concept of fake-fiction is Gianfranco Rosi. For example, Below Sea Level uses the language of cinema in its rendering of unscripted. Of his own work, Rosi said, I don’t care if Im making a film or documentary — to me its a film. The term found footage has sometimes used to describe pseudo-documentaries where the plot involves the discovery of the films footage. Found footage is originally the name of a different genre. The film scholar David Bordwell has criticized this recent use because of the confusion it creates, pseudo-documentary forms have appeared in television advertisements and campaign advertising. Boston-based band the Del Fuegos appeared in a 1984 commercial for Miller beer, peter Greenaway employed pseudo-documentary style in his French television production Death on the Seine in 1988. He used fabricated scenes to reconstruct a historic event that was impossible to shoot

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Reality film
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In an article in Time Magazine, Joel Stein wrote, Like reality TV, a reality film is supercheap, and as Jackass proved, theres an audience willing to pay $9 for what it gets free on television. Typically, a situation is staged or created, often with the use of non-professional actors. Teenage tits and ass, that is, the thinking behind these pics is not new, wrote Gabriel Snyder in Variety about the techniques employed by recent reality movies. In the 1950s, Samuel Arkoff tapped into teen auds with quickies like Rock All Night and Reform School Girl and beach films such as Bikini Beach. Londons Evening Standard called Andy Warhols 1966 film Chelsea Girls a reality film, the film consists of drugged-out conversations between Warhol Superstars Nico, Ondine, Brigid Berlin, Mary Woronov, and Gerard Malanga. I was the one who memorised my lines, said Woronov. In 1970, Candid Camera creator Allen Funt made the film What Do You Say to a Naked Lady, where he secretly filmed peoples reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations. The Real Cancun billed itself as the first reality feature film, in 2003, Comedy Central aired its feature length reality movie Windy City Heat, starring Tony Barbieri and Bobcat Goldthwaite. Some reality films, such as based upon the Jackass television series, have been called documentaries. Jan Krawitz, director of Stanford Universitys prestigious master of arts program in film and video. In his article in Time, Stein raises the point that If the movie is shot like a documentary, were willing to pretend its a documentary no matter how staged it is. Correy Herrick raises a point about Cancun in Hybrid Magazine. Everything that happens is real, but you are only seeing what the producers want you to see, in the order they want you to see it, and they go even further here by splicing in non-reality cuts from time to time to accentuate the plot a little further. They need to turn these people into characters in order to achieve an entertaining experience. James Ronald Whitney, whose films have won multiple Best Documentary awards and its when you go back in time and you do a film about an election, an Olympics, a war, or something in the future that would organically happen anyway. Even Real Cancun, spring break was going to happen, spellbounds spelling bee was still going to happen. Those are not events that were created by a writer who then decided, thats how this is different to me than a documentary. The viability of reality films has been called into question, the Real Cancun was considered a flop at the box office, taking in $5,345,083 worldwide on a budget of $7.5 million

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Travel documentary
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A travelogue film is an early type of travel documentary, serving as an exploratory ethnographic film. The British comedian and actor Michael Palin has made series in this genre beginning with Michael Palin. PBS has several shows including those hosted by Rick Steves. Travelogues were used to provide the public with a means of observing different countries and cultures since the late 19th century. Travelogues are considered to be a form of tourism or travel documentary and were often presented as lectures narrating accompanying films. Travelogues are defined as films that use a place as their primary subject. They often display the cinematic apparatus and have an open narration, Travelogues were usually about eighty minutes in length, consisting of two 1000-foot reels of 16mm film, with an intermission in-between to change reels. The travelogue film speaker, often but not always the filmmaker, would introduce each reel, ask for the lights to be dimmed. Travelogue series were offered during the winter months and were often sold on subscription basis in small. Patrons could then meet the speaker in-person after the show, Travelogues further developed to incorporate movie rides which were coordinated sounds, motion pictures and mechanical movement to simulate virtual travel. Cinéorama, which simulates a ride in a hot air balloon and Mareorama, todays travelogues may be shown with either live or recorded voice-over narration, often with an in-sync audio soundtrack featuring music and location sound. The shows are performed in school gymnasiums, civic auditoriums, senior center multi-purpose rooms, private clubs. Travelogues stem from the work of American writer and lecturer, John Lawson Stoddard who began traveling around the world in 1874 and he went on to publish books about his adventures and gave lectures across North America. The original lectures were accompanied by black and white lantern slides printed from his photographs, in 1892, John Lawson Stoddard recruited Burton Holmes as his junior associate. When Stoddard was ready to retire in 1897, he arranged for Holmes to take over the rest of his speaking arrangements. Holmes went on to become the premier travel lecturer of his day and coined the term, travelogues, after World War II, Lowell Thomas created popular Movietone News Reel travelogues shown in movie theaters across the U. S. During the 1950s and 1960s, more independent film producers created travelogues, though travelogues have enjoyed much popularity historically, these films have been criticized for culturally insensitive representations since the films were not made by anthropologists. A famous example is the film about a family in the Canadian Arctic, Nanook of the North, Travelogues are credited with helping cultivating the interest in the travel industry at the same time transportation infrastructure was being developed to make it possible